re: sound device error
Wednesday, March 15, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Quinn
(1 messages posted)
I tried the fix shown here on my Dell running on WinXP. Modified the machine.inf
as described and added new hardware. I got the plug and play enumerator to show
up. Now I have no sound capabilities at all. It keeps trying to add different sound
card kernals from windows. I tried to uninstall them all, but they just keep showing
up. It has caused so many conflicts with my machine that I had to completely disable
my soundcard or else it hangs up trying to do anything and bootup takes nearly ten
minutes. How can I put it back to what it was before I started all of this? System
Restore does nothing. I can't figure out a way to uninstall the plug and play enumerator.
I'm tempted to try putting in a new sound card, but it doesn't sound like that will
accomplish anythinf for me. I really don't want to wipe my computer and start over
(I don't even know if that would fix it). Please help.
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 2:59 pm, Tony Marques wrote:
>Again, these are instructions on how to install the Plug and Play Software Enumerator
>in XP/2k -- if it is missing. If it isn't missing and works then this wouldn't
be
>the cause of your audio problem.
>
>If you had problems with the previous instructions, here they are again.
>
>I presume swenum.inf is a Win9X/ME only file.
>The machine.inf solution should work for 2000 and XP. If you can't find or see
the
>files it may be because your explorer isn't configured to show system or hidden
files
>-- check your options or use a cmd prompt.
>
>From an MSDOS cmd prompt type or cut and paste
>
>md \temp
>cd \temp
>copy %windir%\inf\machine.inf \temp\allmachine.inf
>copy %windir%\system32\drivers\swenum.sys \temp
>copy %windir%\system32\streamci.dll \temp
>notepad \temp\allmachine.inf
>
>
>Using notepad go to line 22 (CTRL-G 22) which should be
>ExcludeFromSelect=*
>delete and remove that line wherever you find it (Line 20 maybe)
>and save the file
>
>We're finished that part. Notepad and the cmd prompt can be closed. %windir% was
>probably c:\windows\ and that was automatically be expanded in the windows cmd prompt.
>
>Now, just go to Add Hardware, add a new hardware device there at the bottom, install
>from list, next, have disk, and select the temp directory where we copied the files
>(c:\temp\ in the example here).
>
>You should have all the different machine level services listed since we've removed
>the ExcludeFromSelect=* which hid them all. We only want to add Plug and Play Software
>Enumerator and nothing else so select and install only that.
>
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- Written in response to:
- re: sound device error (Tony Marques: Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 2:59 pm)
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